Hay-rack for carts



UNITED STES PATENT OEFTC.

HORACE R. HAWKINS, OF AKRON, OHIO.

HAY-RACK FOR CARTS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,07 5, dated July 10, 1860.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HORACE R. HAWKINS, of Akron, in the county of Summit, in the State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hay-Racks for Carts or lVagons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a top or plan view of my improved rack. Fig. 2 represents a side view of Fig. l. F ig. 3 represents an end view, and Fig et represents an end view of the rack folded up to be packed or stored away. A, A, represent a frame work which rests on the axle or axles of the cart or wagon to which it should be attached or fastened. The said frame work A, is provided with uprights a, a, a, a.

The rack is composed of bottom or base pieces D, D, arms B, B, and top pieces C, C. The arms B, B, are rigidly secured at their lower ends to the base pieces D, D, and are also hinged together, as shown at F, in the drawings.

The top pieces C, C, are provided with eyes or staples e, and in this instance with crop pieces E, although it is not essential that the crop pieces should be usedgbut they tend to strengthen the ends of the pieces C, and therefore when the rack is to be used for heavy work, it will be well to use them.

The operation is as follows: The upper ends of the arms B, B, are thrown apart until their shoulders b, b, restupon the bot` tom pieces D, D, and then the rack is placed on the frame A, the uprights a, a, passing up between projections f, f, on the base pieces D, D. The top pieces C, C, are now placed on the upper ends of the arms B, B

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their lower edges resting on shoulders c, c, while the staples or clasps are slipped over the ends of the arms B, B, as fully shown in the drawings.

If necessary a removable cross piece G, may be employed to keep the rack extended, the base pieces D, D, being provided with staples into which the piece Gr, can be slipped and there held by pins.

It will be seen that the space between the arms B, B, and pieces C, C, affords ample room for hay. Then the rack is not in use, it can be removed from the wagon or cart and folded up so as to occupy but little room, as fully shown in Fig. 4, of the drawings.

It is a great desideratum with farmers to have such implements and machines, as are simple, durable, and also capable of being stored in as compact a manner as possible.

In the present invention I have contributed a good, firm, simple, and cheap article to the use of farmers; and what adds to its greater usefulness, is the fact, that itcan be quickly folded up and packed or stored away under cover, thus rendering it almost certain that the rack will not be left exposed to the weather as would be likely to be the case if it could not be so conveniently removed and folded up.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A removable folding hay rack for carts or wagons, constructed and operating substantially as above set forth.

HORACE R. HAIVKINS.

I/Vitnesses:

L. I. CLARK, H. IV. Howe. 

